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Quote of the Week
In the 18th century, the Industrial Revolution was one of several revolutions that overturned society. Mechanical creatures intruded into farms and homes, but still this invasion had no name. Finally, in 1802, Johann Beckmann, an economics professor at Gottingen University gave this ascending force its name [technology] . . . He hoped his outline [a textbook titled Guide to Technology] would become the first course in the subject. It did that and more. It also gave a name to what we do. Once named, we could now see it. Having seen it, we wondered how anyone could not have seen it.
Source: Kevin Kelly, What Technology Wants
Posted: 2025 Oct 18Or check out this TEDxSF by Kelly.
Music of the Week
Category Archives: Feeling Clearly
The Hinterland Just Down the Road
Another look-at and listen-to loons. Continue reading
An All-Volunteer Army
Soon there will be no professionals left. Continue reading
Why We YELL
Leading by example: What a concept. Continue reading
Premeditated Resentments
Here today. And that’s enough. Continue reading
Oh, Happy Day
Happy Something Day Continue reading
Pleasant to Me?
Yup, too old. Continue reading
Who Writes This Stuff?
The advertising geniuses strike again. Continue reading
Posted in Feeling Clearly, Language and Communication, Mortality
Tagged Attitudes, Business, Death
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Where Are They Now?
A little poem for a little bird, now little in evidence. Continue reading
A Good Run
An analysis of the cost/benefit of the monarchy. Not. Continue reading